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  Disinformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Disinformation, in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to one's position or course of action.
Disinformation techniques may also be found in commerce and government, used by one group to try to undermine the position of a competitor.
Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, which is undeliberate, i.e.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disinformation   (375 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Disinformation
Consequently, European disinformation channels are telling the people that chemtrails are actually a pollution problem caused by a sudden and mysterious conversion to high-polluting jet engines (the opposite is true), and what must be a six-fold increase in commercial air traffic that apparently happened overnight for no known reason.
Disinformation channels that are pushing the contrail story believe that you cannot tell the difference between an airplane two miles away and one that is five, six, or seven miles away.
Deliberate chemtrail disinformation is not designed to change the minds of anyone that is actually involved with investigation, but to inject as much confusion as possible into those who are new to the idea and just now trying to make sense of it all.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Disinformation   (1044 words)

  
 Disinformation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Disinformation techniques may also be found in commerce, used by one company to try to undermine the position of a competitor.
Disinformation Disinformation is a search service for those seeking factual information on current affairs, politics and new science media stories.
Disinformation: Flick the Switch Interview by Jason Louv, conducted at the 2001 San Diego Comic Convention.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Disinformation.html   (459 words)

  
 Dezinformatsiya: The KGB's Disinformation Activities
It entails the distribution of forged or fabricated documents, letters, manuscripts, and photographs; the propagation of misleading or malicious rumours and erroneous intelligence by agents; the duping of visitors to the Soviet Union; and physical acts committed for psychological effect.
Disinformation operations differ from conventional propaganda in that their true origins are concealed, and they usually involve some form of clandestine action.
Another Disinformation Department Officer, Yuri Ivanovich Lyudin, using the alias Yuri Ivanovich Modin, spent ten months in New Delhi preparing the forgeries that the KGB released to influence the 1967 Indian elections.
www.heretical.com /miscella/dinform.html   (864 words)

  
 Disinformation - SourceWatch
Disinformation is deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government, intelligence agency, corporation or other entity for the purpose of influencing opinions or perceptions.
Disinformation can also be leaked, or covertly released to a source who can be trusted to repeat the false information.
Disinformants sometimes seek to gain the confidence of their audience through emotional appeals or by using semi-neutral language interlaced with threads of disinformation.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Disinformation   (601 words)

  
 Disinformation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Disinformation in the context of espionage military intelligence and propaganda is the spreading of deliberately false to mislead an enemy as to one's or course of action.
Disinformation techniques may also be found in and government used by one group to to undermine the position of a competitor.
The Soviet Union made disinformation a recognized military and tactic though disinformation is generally more subtle designed to remain unconscious to the target An excellent example would be the Indonesia interest groups in the United States government who have managed the governments since 1945 (see History of Indonesia).
www.freeglossary.com /Disinformation   (555 words)

  
 Invitation to Participate [Halifax Symposium]
But disinformation extends far beyond isolated examples; whether it is the manipulation of “democracy” or of “human rights” or of “nuclear-non-proliferation” to justify interference in the internal affairs of sovereign nations and even launch pre-emptive aggression, it has become so pervasive that it is the central rule, rather than the exception.
Whether it is the “clash of civilizations” or the thesis of “rogue” or “failed” states, disinformation relies on the ideological content of imperialism.
Disinformation is not just a matter of a foreign policy adventure of Bush or Blair, but has become a general method for imperial dictate and monopoly right in the overall neo-liberal assault on conscience and enlightenment, and the sovereign and democratic rights of nations and peoples.
www.halifaxsymposium.ca /invitation.html   (725 words)

  
 DISINFORMATION TV DVD SET
Disinformation, the raddest website for all things underground, has been around since 1996, back when the World Wibe Web was a great resource for outlaw and underground information.
Disinformation's foray into prime time television featured such mainstream topics as hermaphrodite porn and sex slaves.
Disinformation has released the TV show as a 2-DVD set which is a must-have for anyone with even a passing interest in outsider music and art, conspiracy politics, and extreme porn.
www.unitshifter.com /disinformation.html   (588 words)

  
 9-11 Research
The use of disinformation and diversion to manipulate public opinion is a highly developed art.
With the engineering of public reaction to September 11, disinformation has been used with a sophistication and depth that is historically unprecedented.
Disinformation aimed at skeptics of the official story is more subtle than the simple promotion of that story to the masses.
911research.wtc7.net /disinfo   (755 words)

  
 Disinformation
In Houston, TX, for example, my research shows that contrails typically are seen at altitudes of 33,000 ft. to 43,000 ft. The 43,000 ft. upper limit is probably due to maximum altitude of typical airtraffic, not a physical limit, although a temperature inversion can cap the upper altitude extent of contrails.
Disinformation: Shiptrails are Chemtrails sprayed by jets over the ocean.
The phenomenon known as shiptrails, which are observed over the oceans in some satellite images have been purported to actually be Chemtrails sprayed by jets, however a simple examination of the formation of these trails in timelapse satellite images shows they are created by very slow craft averaging less than 30 MPH.
www.chemtrailcentral.com /disinfo.shtml   (361 words)

  
 Overcoming disinformation - RMHI
The rules of engagement are stated from the perspective of the disinformation artist; to best understand one's opponents, it is helpful to imagine jumping inside their minds.
Disinformation artists use a variation of the betrayal-by-trusted-source tactic when they deceptively mimic the religious, political, or ethnic biases and beliefs of others to gain their trust.
The preceding disinformation tactics are preferable because they are based on subtleties, half-truths, and ideas that easily take root in the minds of people who lack skills in reasoning.
www.rmhiherbal.org /review/2001-1.html   (5301 words)

  
 Rheingold's Brainstorms: Disinformation Superhighway? By L. Floridi
Disinformation arises whenever the process of information is defective.
More explicitly, disinformation via TV may be a different phenomenon from disinformation achieved via the Internet, just as advertising via the two media differs.
One is contingent: the Internet is actually being used by a socio- cultural élite whose members would find it more difficult to disinform one another because, to a large extent, this is also the educated élite that can keep the life and flow of information under control.
www.well.com /user/hlr/texts/disinfo.html   (3415 words)

  
 Café Pacific: Asia-Pacific Network: Media
By "excellent" Aristides meant the military's ability to create a public image that it was opposed to the declaration of a state of emergency, while in fact it was to the contrary.
The discussion on disinformation and biased reporting took place at Taman Ismail Marzuki on June 13 and was organized by a group called Get-together for Democracy, a polling and media studies institute.
Disinformation can also be made through the Internet or through an agency such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Aristides said.
www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/indonmed3.html   (1161 words)

  
 Chemtrails And Disinformation
As most everyone is now aware, the disinformation specialist will tell you that your eyes and memory are lying to you, and we are all seeing a "natural" phenomena called "contrails".
A case in point, which I suspect to be disinformation, was the recent announcement by Michael McDonnough, creator of Chemtrails.Org, that he had solved the chemtrails riddle and we could all forget the whole thing.
The disinformation source will REFUSE TO DISCUSS any of the key points that distinguish the intensive aerial spraying of population centers from the red herring, be it contrails or pollution.
www.rense.com /politics6/chemndis.htm   (4898 words)

  
 DISINFORMATION
James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. The subject of disinformation appears to be far more deserving of study by members of the assassination research community than it seems to have had in the past.
Disinformation involves the dissemination of incomplete, inaccurate, or otherwise misleading information with the objective, goal, or aim of deceiving others about the truth.
Those, such as comics, who ridicule a public figure by suggesting that they are the south end of a horse headed north, for example, are making assertions that are (literally) false, that they know are (literally) false, yet they do not ascend to the level of lies because there is no intent to deceive anyone.
www.assassinationscience.com /disinformation.html   (1277 words)

  
 DVD Talk > Reviews > Disinformation: The Complete Series
Disinformation, the media-blitzing brainchild of writer and cultural critic Robert Metzger was ripe with bodice-ripping confrontation from the very beginning.
Cracking open the two-disc DVD set, one learns that Disinformation is a lot like reading a copy of the Weekly World News as written by James Randi and the staff of The Skeptical Enquirer.
And there is the sinking suspicion that Disinformation, for all its high-minded middle fingering of the media establishment is just shilling in the same manner as the big boys.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=12123   (2917 words)

  
 Iraqi Disinformation: Allegations and Facts
Disinformation is a cheap, crude, and often very effective way to inflame public opinions and affect attitudes.
Disinformation differs fundamentally from misinformation, unintentional errors which occur when facts are unclear and deadline pressures urgent.
The current phase of Iraqi disinformation relating to hostilities was foreshadowed on December 31 when the An-Nahar newspaper in Israel falsely claimed that American military personnel had plotted with Saudi officials to attack 'Al Ka'aba' in Mecca with a rocket bearing Iraqi markings, planning to use this incident as a pretext to attack Iraq.
intellit.muskingum.edu /othercountries_folder/iraq_dis.htm   (3097 words)

  
 Brave.Net.World: The Internet as a Disinformation Superhighway?
Disinformation is caused by some form of mishandling of information, belongs to the third group and is endogenous to any information management system (IMS), from the manuscript tradition to the card index of a library, from the publication of a scholarly journal to the broadcasting of a popular radio program.
In spite of some clear cases of disinformation [8], at the moment there seem to be no reasons to be worried.
On the risk of enhancing disinformation by repetitive false alarms (desensitization, like in the famous fable about "crying wolf") see Rapid dissemination of half-truths, lies, and disinformation published in The Risks Digest 11.41 Monday 8 April 1991 by J.
www.agora.qc.ca /textes/floridi2.html   (3929 words)

  
 The Art Auction
Disinformation is a fine-art research project which has evolved out of the underground experimental noise scene, through various activities and guises, to a point where its' primary product can now be seen as pure psychological research.
Disinformation has DJ'd and performed in jazz, punk, folk, experimental and classical music venues, participated in events such as Architecture Week and National Science Week, published articles, CDs and records, and exhibited in ships, churches, schools, universities, community centres, bars, art galleries, an underground military radar installation and major international museums.
Disinformation's National Grid is a sub-bass installation sourced either from the ambient VLF field radiated by electricity pylons and mains circuits, or, more recently, directly from the output cables of mains transformers.
www.rovingeyegallery.com /artauction/artists/disin   (481 words)

  
 Official US deception: Can it be trusted? | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Disinformation goes beyond misinformation to planting information, source concealed, that pretends to be truthful.
A classic piece of CIA disinformation was a pornographic movie made in the 1960s with an actor pretending to be President Sukarno of Indonesia.
The subject of disinformation is back with a report that it was one of the tools considered by the Pentagon's short-lived Office of Strategic Influence.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0301/p11s02-cods.html   (425 words)

  
 The Heat Is Online
A third institution that has contributed significantly public confusion on the climate issue is the George C. Marshall Institute, an extreme, politically conservative institute which maintains that the climate crisis is basically a liberal plot to subvert the U.S. economy.
Taken together, the various campaigns of disinformation have been extraordinarily successful in maintaining a relentless drumbeat of doubt in the public mind about the reality of global climate change.
Most recently, the main purveyors of disinformation on the climate have been funded by ExxonMobil, which funds a number of skeptics and an array of policy institutes which continue either to deny the reality of climate change or to minimize its importance.
www.heatisonline.org /contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=4380&method=full   (471 words)

  
 Surfing The Apocalypse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
I was primarily afforded the opportunity to investigate peripherally a few incidents and implement disinformation or misinformation programs to divert attention away from the military and toward the paranormal and/or UFO [followers] in those areas.
Disinformation or misinformation: The art of provided information in a form that has a certain amount of truth in the statement to make it a plausible answer to a question or a possible solution to the topic at hand.
If it is disinformation that is being spread, the subtleties of the statements may not jump out at you at first, but generally they are very glaring points of truth and untruth.
www.surfingtheapocalypse.com /maynard.html   (9813 words)

  
 Asia Times
Again, every professional reporter understands that his job is to provide such details and it is exactly such details that make his reporting valuable, interesting, and memorable.
Given a very specific nature of the disinformation produced in this particular case, its obvious potential effect on both resisting Iraqis and anti-war public opinion, we cannot see any other explanation for it, except that The Wall Street Journal directly collaborates with the psychological warfare department in the Pentagon.
The Wall Street Journal article was "compiled" by Matt Murray in New York from reports by Christopher Cooper in Doha, Qatar, Carla Anne Robbins and Greg Jaffe in Washington, and Helene Cooper with the US Army's Third Infantry Division in Iraq.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/ED03Ak02.html   (778 words)

  
 Disinformation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Unlike propaganda or the Big Lie technique designed to engage an emotional support; disinformation is designed to manipulate the audience at the rational level by either discrediting conflicting information or proposing false conclusions.
The Soviet Union made disinformation a recognized military and political tactic, though disinformation is generally more subtle and designed to remain unconscious to the target audience.
An excellent example would be the Indonesia interest groups in the United States government who have managed the governments preception since 1945 (see History of Indonesia).
www.wikiverse.org /disinformation   (294 words)

  
 DISINFORMATION DEBATE
Fifth Type: The fifth level of disinformation appears to occur when a source presents information that has been deliberately selected to misrepresent, distort or abuse sources with the intention to mislead.
First Type: The first level of disinformation might equally well be characterized as apparent incompetence by someone who assumes the task of offering criticism but for which he is not well-positioned to provide.
This debate reflects how difficult it is to decide whether someone is disseminating disinformation or is simply arguing tenaciously for their point of view.
www.assassinationscience.com /disdeb3.html   (1165 words)

  
 Disinformation
Disinformation is a search service for those seeking factual information on current affairs, politics and new science media stories.
The website version of Ross Gelbspan's 1995 book on global warming science, politics and industry disinformation, is now a website that tracks and updates climate-related developments, including "Extreme Weather Profiles" from 1995-1999; campaigns of deception and disinformation by the fossil fuel lobby; and "solution" strategies.
How some people get others to agree with their point of view, give them what they want, do what they ask and buy what they are selling.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Disinformation   (1003 words)

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